JAMES KER

Assistant Professor of Classical Studies and Undergraduate Chair

Education

Ph.D. (Classics) University of California, Berkeley, 2002
M.A. (Greek) University of California, Berkeley, 1997
B.A. (Classics and Linguistics) University of Canterbury, 1994

Teaching and research

Latin literature
Roman cultural history
Philosophy, anthropology

Recent courses

(undergraduate) Nero and the Roman Imagination, Roman Tragedy, Petronius, Herodotus
(graduate) Latin Prose Composition, Roman Exemplarity, Latin Literature Survey, Seneca

Selected publications

• The Deaths of Seneca (Oxford University Press, 2009)
• "Drinking from the Water-Clock: Time and Speech in Imperial Rome," Arethusa 42 (2009) 279–302
• "Seneca on Self-Examination: Rereading De ira 3.36," in Seneca and the Self, ed. Shadi Bartsch and David Wray (Cambridge University Press) 160–187
• "Roman Repraesentatio," AJP 128 (2007) 341–65
• "Seneca, Man of Many Genres," in Seeing Seneca Whole: Perspectives on Philosophy, Poetry, Politics, ed. K. Volk and G. D. Williams (2006), 19–41
• "Nocturnal Writers in Imperial Rome: The culture of Lucubratio," CP 99 (2004) 209–42

Work in progress

Beginning the Day in Ancient Rome: Morningtime, City, and Self (book-length project)

Contact

Office: Cohen 263
Phone: 215-898-3027
Email • Curriculum vitae